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Concluded at Fort Stanwix, on the twenty-fecond Day of October, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-four, between Oliver Wolcott, Richard Butler, aud Arthur Lee, Commiffioners Plenipotentiary from the United States, in Congress affembled, on the one Part, and the Sachems and Warriors of the Six Nations, on the other.

HE United States of America give peace

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to the Senecas, Mohawks, Onondagas and Cayugas, and receive them into their protection upon the following conditions:

ARTICLE I.

Six hostages fhall be immediately delivered to the commiffioners by the faid nations, to remain in poffeffion of the United States, till all the prisoners, white and black, which were taken by the faid Senecas, Mohawks, Onondagas and Cayugas, or by any of them, in the

Hoftages to be given till prifoners are de

livered up.

Poffeffion

late war,

from among the people of the United

States, fhall be delivered up.

ARTICLE II.

The Oneida and Tufcarora nations fhall be

of lands fe- fecured in the poffeffion of the lands on which they are fettled.

cured.

Bounda

ries.

Goods

given to the Indians.

ARTICLE III.

A line fhall be drawn, beginning at the mouth of a creek about four miles eaft of Niagara, called Oyonwayea, or Johnston's Landing-Place, upon the lake named by the Indians Ofwego, and by us Ontario; from thence foutherly in a direction always four miles east of the carrying-path, between Lake Erie and Ontario, to the mouth of Tehoferoron or Buffaloe Creek on Lake Erie; thence fouth to the north boundary of the state of Pennsylvania; thence weft to the end of the faid north boundary; thence fouth along the weft boundary of the faid ftate, to the river Ohio; the faid line from the mouth of the Oyonwayea to the Ohio, fhall be the western boundary of the lands of the Six Nations, fo that the Six Nations fhall and do yield to the United States, all claims to the country weft of the faid boundary, and then they fhall be fecured in the peaceful poffeffion of the lands they inhabit east and north of the fame, referving only fix miles fquare round the fort of Ofwego, to the United States, for the fupport of the fame.

ARTICLE IV.

The Commiffioners of the United States, in confideration of the present circumftances of the Six Nations, and in execution of the humane and liberal views of the United States upon the figning of the above articles, will

order goods to be delivered to the faid Six Nations for their use and comfort.

Tayagonendagighti, his mark. (L. s.)

Tehonwaeaghriagi, his

mark. (L. S.)

Cayuga.

Oraghgoanendagen, his mark. (L. s.)

Tuscarora.

Ononghfarenghti, his

mark. (L. S.)

Tharondawagen, his

Seneca Abeal.

mark. (L. s.)

Kayenthoghke, his mark. (L. s.)

Witneffes: Sam. Jo. Atlee, Wm. Maclay, Fras. Johnston, Pennfylvania Commiffioners. Aaron Hill, Alexander Campbell, Saml. Kirkland, Miff'y. James Dean, Saml. Montgomery, Derick Lane, Capt. John Mercer, Lieut. William Pennington, Lieut. Mahlon Ford, Enfign. Hugh Peebles.

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Concluded at Fort M'Intofh, the twenty-firft Day of January, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-five, between the Commiffioners Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, of the one Part, and the Sachems and Warriors of the Wiandot, Delaware, Chippawa and Ottawa Nations of the

other.

TH

HE Commiffioners Plenipotentiary of the United States in Congrefs affembled, give peace to the Wiandot, Delaware, Chippawa, and Ottawa nations of Indians, on the following conditions.

ARTICLE I.

Three chiefs, one from among the Wiandot, and two from among the Delaware nations, fhall be delivered up to the Commiffioners of the United States, to be by them retained till all the prifoners, white and black, taken by the faid nations, or any of them, fhall be restored.

ARTICLE II.

Hoftages to be given, till prifoners are re

ftored.

The faid Indian nations do acknowledge Indians acthemselves and all their tribes to be under the knowledge protection protection of the United States, and of no of U. s. other fovereign whatsoever.